Jean-Marie Le Pen, the father of Marine Le Pen, has died aged 96, according to French media.
After spending several weeks in a care facility, the politician died at midday on Tuesday “surrounded by his loved ones”, according to a family statement.
Famously a Holocaust denier and far right politician, Le Pen founded the French National Front party in 1972 until his daughter took over in 2011.
Four years later, while he was serving as its honorary president, he was expelled from the party by his daughter after a party congress.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the father of Marine Le Pen, has died aged 96, according to French media
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He had been previously suspended earlier that year after he repeated his opinion that the Holocaust was “a detail of history”.
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